POOJA v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO AND 3 OTHERS
CRLP/4017/2025 · 2025-05-12
Ajai Kumar Srivastava I, Attau Rahman Masoodi
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:27984-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 4017 of 2025 Petitioner :- Pooja Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ankur Pandey,Mahendra Pratap Singh Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned A.G.A for the State and perused the record.
2. Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report dated 30.04.2025 bearing F.I.R. No.0191 of 2025, under Sections 60, 60(2) of Uttar Pradesh Excise Duty/ Abkari Act and Sections 274, 275 of the B.N.S., Police Station Kotwali Dehat, District Gonda.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner confines his prayer for issuing direction to the police authorities to follow the mandate of Section 35(3) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (corresponding Section 41A Cr.P.C.) for the reason that the offences mentioned in the impugned First Information Report carry the sentence of upto 7 years of imprisonment.
4. Accordingly, we dispose of this petition with the direction to the police authorities concerned to follow the mandate of Section 35(3) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (corresponding Section 41A Cr.P.C.) and also the directions issued by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar, reported in (2014) 8 SCC 273. [Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I, J.] [Attau Rahman Masoodi, J.] Order Date :- 12.5.2025 cks/- Digitally signed by :- CHANDRA KANT SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- CHANDRA KANT SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench